Category: Personal

Utah

Yesterday, Maggie and I left VT at 430am to catch a flight from Manchester, NH to Chicago, IL, to Salt Lake City. We stayed in Park City for the night before going to pick...

Twitter Rant on Landlords (and Banks)

The other day I had a so-called Twitter rant. My direct complaint is that the higher you go up on the food chain, the less people at those levels feel compelled to voluntarily participate...

September – One Day at a Time

I write something nearly every day. I’ve kept a journal since the fall of 1989. For years I’ve wanted to join the group of daily bloggers, but my problem is I lack discipline. Not...

So you want to be a Billionaire?

At our tiny start-up company, Worthee, we spend a great deal of time debating social justice as part of our mission to help people in low wage jobs and industries rise and thrive. For...

PPP Details Disclosed

Yesterday there was a lot of press related to disclosure of which companies in various states received money from the Payroll Protection Program and how much. As I’ve previously shared, Boloco’s Massachusetts entity (7...

Even a Peanut Aspires & George Washington Carver

This past Tuesday morning, I caught a quick glimpse of the final, final draft of a Boloco promotional email that was to be released at 11am. “The Jimmy Carter Shake is Back!” it proclaimed....

Excuses

One of the reasons I so rarely blog (at least I tell myself this) is because I hate this site so much. I don’t like WordPress, and I don’t like my specific site. If...

The Power of a Brick

Many who have worked with me or know me well have heard me talk about the power of an ordinary brick – equating it, of course, to the potential power of an ordinary burrito....

Pivoting to a Non-Profit Model

For the past month, since Covid-19 hit in earnest, Boloco has operated essentially as a non-profit organization. The knowledge that our business, like so many others, was barely hanging on and had no clear...